Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Smug or complacent satisfaction with oneself or with one's accomplishments.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Satisfaction with one's own excellence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being self-satisfied.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
feeling offulfillment orcontentment with respect to one's ownaccomplishments orsituation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself
Etymologies
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Examples
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He was wearing an expression of self-satisfaction.
Fallen Hearts V.C. ANDREWS 1988
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He was wearing an expression of self-satisfaction.
Fallen Hearts V.C. ANDREWS 1988
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He doesn't come flat out and say it but he clearly thinks this a sign of our national tendencies towards complacency, self-satisfaction, and parochialism, and he'd like it if more of us tried to cure ourselves of those tendencies by packing up and shipping out on that slow boat to anywhere.
Questions of travel 2009
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I can see how it harms animals clearly, but what other than self-righteous self-satisfaction comes from attacking them?
Bruce Friedrich: PETA VP: In Defense Of VegNews & The Meat Photos 'Controversy' Bruce Friedrich 2011
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We all need to bear witness, and do so without smugness or self-satisfaction from the safety of our "free" world.
Michael Vazquez: On The Imprisonment of Iranian Filmmakers: A Moral Option For Iran and Any Government Presuming to Silence Its Artists Michael Vazquez 2011
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When he came home, armed with the knowledge, he wore a look of self-satisfaction on his face.
Raven V.C Andrews 2011
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I can see how it harms animals clearly, but what other than self-righteous self-satisfaction comes from attacking them?
Bruce Friedrich: PETA VP: In Defense Of VegNews & The Meat Photos 'Controversy' Bruce Friedrich 2011
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I can see how it harms animals clearly, but what other than self-righteous self-satisfaction comes from attacking them?
Bruce Friedrich: PETA VP: In Defense Of VegNews & The Meat Photos 'Controversy' Bruce Friedrich 2011
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I can see how it harms animals clearly, but what other than self-righteous self-satisfaction comes from attacking them?
Bruce Friedrich: PETA VP: In Defense Of VegNews & The Meat Photos 'Controversy' Bruce Friedrich 2011
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I can see how it harms animals clearly, but what other than self-righteous self-satisfaction comes from attacking them?
Bruce Friedrich: PETA VP: In Defense Of VegNews & The Meat Photos 'Controversy' Bruce Friedrich 2011
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